Loved the fact you designed the layout of the screen were as all the TBGs I played so far have just used regular buring plain white screen with normal text!
Mood was great, I felt like a detective from the future where crimes are fought using a terminal really great idea, you should expand upon it, but I fail to see what it has to do with evolution.
First time I played a game like this and it seems very interesting. The text-based gameplay makes you concentrate on the case at hand and nothing else. I have to agree with Cipher though, where is the relation with evolution?
This was actually one of the rare cases of a text-game that I liked. And that despite me not liking detective games. This really caught me and I was actually disappointed when it ended. Can't see the theme in it either, but nevertheless this was really fun. Good job!
I watched two of my friends play Locked Away. Both of them finished the game, but missed one little detail. Because they both missed it, I suspect that I made it far too subtle and that other people are missing it too.
If you've just finished the game, but still feel curious, this is the 'clue' I gave them: http://pastebin.com/x782KyM7
I tried to make it a bit more obvious in the post-compo version.
This was actually really fun. It got a bit cumbersome typing in some of the longer names, but it was still the most engrossing game of the competition I've played so far.
Amazingly fun puzzle game. They way you are searching the logs and the transaction details you do feel like a detective in an old vision of what the future would be like. What I really like is how the 3 cases which at first appear separate are actually all linked.
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I watched two of my friends play Locked Away. Both of them finished the game, but missed one little detail. Because they both missed it, I suspect that I made it far too subtle and that other people are missing it too.
If you've just finished the game, but still feel curious, this is the 'clue' I gave them: http://pastebin.com/x782KyM7
I tried to make it a bit more obvious in the post-compo version.
Please write some more cases!
I liked it...